Quotes About Success

I would never have thought my collection of short stories would win the Giller.

I'm just really happy. Really satisfied with my whole medal collection.

I had a good start. I did a record with Beyonce. I did a record with Lenny Kravitz. I put out my second collection of music and then my second collection of clothes.

It's a collective experience when you're making TV. You think of all the people who work hard to make this extraordinary and you just hope that it works well.

The personal stats are good, but the collective is better.

A party's success lies in collective effort.

I don't want to sell to street art collectors, I want to sell to art collectors.

I never went to college.

You know that it is only through work that you can achieve anything, either in college or in the world.

I'm a self-made man since I left college at the age of 18.

I'm the first person in my family to go to college.

I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.

I grew up in a home and in a world in which you can do anything. We were all expected to go to college. My father was a doctor.

I wanted to go to a good college, and my mind was set on Wellesley.

If I got hurt or anything, I was going to need a college degree. Nothing was going to stop me from getting that.

I'm definitely somebody who wants a college degree. My attitude is, if I'm going to do it I'm going to go full in.

I have achieved something in sports but there's nothing like a college degree.

I'm pretty well-spoken guy, but I don't have a college education. Me making money in other avenues is not going to be as easy as walking into the Octagon.

The thing I like about college football so much is you can affect these guys a lot more when they are 18-22, 23 years old in terms of people and having a chance to be more successful. They are still a value type development, where you have a chance to help them mature a bit and help them be a little more successful in life.

You've got to be diversified enough. That's the truth in the SEC and in college football.

It's hard to say that it gets any better to be at your alma mater and run a major college football program.

I started young in my profession, in my second year of college. I had to make a career choice. College life is the best time when you can hang around and do all kinds of crazy stuff. Everything clicked so well that the films started coming in bunches.

I did just about everything under the sun. I did some Revlon work, make-up artistry. I taught classes at community colleges for a make-up course, teaching tennis. I was doing everything I knew how to do. I think one year I had as many as 10 W-2's come in.

I had the pressure when I started my career at 18 at Cologne, when people were saying, 'Ah, Podolski, the new hero of Cologne.'